"Wine is the latest in an unbroken line of popular private eyes-molded by Dashiell Hammett in the "20s, psychoanalyzed by Ross Macdonald in the "50s and "60s, and now dragged kicking and screaming into a new decade"s cultural crunch." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "The writing, as always in Moses Wine books, is sharp, amusing, and sophisticated." -The New York Times Book Review Moses Wine is bored and depressed. Unfortunately, his shrink"s idea of helping him is to get him involved in a case. One member of the country"s most popular comedy team has jumped off a roof to his death. His wife denies it was suicide, and Moses must follow the clues from LA to the South Bronx. Simon"s own experiences in therapy, as a writer for Richard Pryor and as a freelance prober of charity campaigns, furnish the plot in the new detective Moses Wine saga. Taking his psychiatrist"s advice, Moses attacks depression by investigating Mike Ptak"s death, on behalf of his widow Emily. Mike was the straight...